What are the benefits of #Wayland over #X11 on #Linux? #Ubuntu #KDE #Neon

I use Synergy/Deskflow and Wayland has so many annoying quirks compared to X11. One quirk though, Copy/Paste works so awesome with #KDEConnect. Wow that app has blossomed in such amazing ways. I remember when it first came out, I tried it and quickly removed it. Such a great app!

Have I ever talked about how useful KDE Connect is?

• You can use your phone as a mouse touch pad input device.
• You can share files between phone and PC real easy.
• You can get phone notifications on PC.
• You can share clipboard contents between Phone and PC.

@dch

I'm a very happy user of #KDEConnect - which is easy to use and has the nice effect of not any communication is leaving my local network.

Are there any advantages of PairDrop?

Die Gyroscope Mouse von #KDEConnect in #ZorinOS ist ja super.
Das muss ich heute Abend mal ausprobieren.

"Smart home" ohne Cloud:

Wenn ich einen Anruf auf dem Festnetz erhalte, klingelt auch mein Smartphone dank #avm #FritzFon App. Das schickt dann ein Signal über #KDE #kdeconnect an den PC, der automatisch Musik oder Video pausiert. Nach dem Telefonat läuft das automatisch weiter.

Und da sitzt kein Cloud-Anbieter dazwischen. Geil!

Real ways in which I use #KDEConnect day to day:

* My scanner in in the main room and my computer in the office (new furniture should fix that, but it's low prio; in the meantime...). I use my phone to click the scan button on my computer while standing by the scanner, flipping and feeding pages.
* My kids use it to drive the tv (my home/media server with a screen) to see the next episode of whatever they're watching (only while I cook; #parenting). No need to buy a BT keyboard+mouse!

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Es gibt noch echte Magie:
Wenn man Handy und Rechner per KDE Connect verbindet, wird nicht nur die Musik pausiert, wenn das Handy klingelt. Man kann auch die Zwischenablagen verbinden und was man auf dem Handy markiert, hat man auf dem Rechner in der Zwischenablage und umgekehrt!

Day 2 of #FOSSASIA Summit 2025 at #KDE. We roamed around with our ideas, showcased KDE, tried to spread the word and raise awareness about KDE.

We found a lot of interesting attendees from students to working professionals sharing their ideas and feedbacks.

Some of the Top products that everyone appreciated of KDE:

#KDEConnect
#Krita
#Kdenlive

Suggestions we got about improving in KDE:

More polishing the UI
Improving #motion graphics engine

Join us and share your opinions!

Would it be (theoretically) possible to implement something like #GSConnect / #KDEConnect for #KaiOS?

What's the hell? #fdroid @kde #KDEConnect

Fetch Apple iPhone photos to your Linux computer (1)

Let’s imagine you have a visitor which is not very familiar with computers and phones but wants to share their 1 Gigabytes of photos with you on their Apple iPhone.

You probably know that until recently Apple was about incompatible as possible when it comes to software and hardware. For example, if you work in an office and your iPhone battery is almost empty then in the last few decades none of the Android phone chargers would rescue you. In the future Apple will iirc have to adjust and allow USB-C connections.

In this blog post I will focus on LocalSend because I believe it is an elegant solution

for all kind of operating systems and it is not super difficult.

For example, with Linux you can also go for the tools of libimobiledevice project

but this is not only more difficult but it can be very confusing. Because if you use libimobiledevice to mount the iPhone and you think you will quickly copy photos across and then delete a few hundreds photos via the mount point you will be in for a surprise.

libimobiledevice can only copy from the phone and it cannot delete photos from the phone although it will not complain about the latter.

So, without further ado and without further delays let’s check out the wonderful LocalSend application :

1. Install LocalSend on the phone and on your Linux computer.
2. Make sure you are on the same WiFi network without client isolation on (this can be the case if you have a Guest WiFi network option).
3. On your Linux laptop open port 53317 for incoming traffic.
4. Start the LocalSend app on both phone and your Linux computer.
5. At the Linux computer click the Receive button
6. On the phone select which images you’d like to send.
7. On the Linux computer when the phone has been discovered, click on the nickname of the phone to receive the photos which in my case were downloaded in the ~/Downloads folder.

Alternatives ? KDEConnect or the GNOME counterpart of KDEConnect is also available for Linux, Android, Apple iOS and more.

Part 2 will be about how to convert the photos from HEIC to png or jpg format.

@kde #kdeconnect is a nifty piece of software in many respects, but I don't _technically_ need a reminder on my desktop, every time I receive a new piece of mail, that I have 3x10^n unread emails, with one notification box. For. Each. Unread. Email.

Can I please change, somewhere, which notifications that get forwarded to the computer? If I need to turn off "show notifications" altogether, I would just unpair my phone and cease using the tool altogether, because a sensible amount of notifications shown on the computer is the only reason I do use the tool in the first place.

One notification for "you have x new emails" is okay, but not:

for each "there exists at least one new email since I last checked" (
for each unread email since x date (
show next email
)
)

Last email (single email!) that arrived caused some, what, 30-40? dialogs to show up about old emails. Yes, I saw all but one of those notifications half an hour ago, when the second to latest email arrived. This is getting slightly annoying.

kthxby,
-Timjan